JOHN URBAIN  1920- 2009
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John A. Urbain - Artist


Personal Information                                            

Born in Brussels, Belgium, 1920

Lived in Detroit, MI, 1922-1941

U. S. Army, 1941-1945

Lived in Philadelphia, PA, 1947-1950

Lived in Paris, France, 1950-1952

Lived in New York, NY 1953-present

 

Education

Academie de la Grand Chaumier, Paris.

Academie Julien, Paris

Black Mountain College, NC: studied with professor Josef Albers

U.S.  Army: Fort Custer Army Group

Cass Technical School, Detroit MI

Society of Arts of Crafts, Detroit, MI

 

Collections

 

Museum of Modern Art

Brooklyn Museum of Art

National Gallery of Art

Detroit Museum of Art

Houston Art Museum

North Carolina Museum of Art

Kellogs

Galerie Pepe Rebollo

Albright Knox Museum

Mobil Oil

Philip Morris Companies Inc.

Miller Brewing Company

Also private collections in USA & abroad

 

Exhibitions

1952: Raymond Duncan, Paris, France

1965: Grippi Gallery, New York, NY

1967: Weyhe Gallery, New York, NY

1968: Gotham Book Mart, New York, NY

1969: Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1971: Adam Gallery, New York, NY

1971: Rizzoli Gallery, New York, NY

197T Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

1978: Barbara Fiedler Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1982: Impressions Gallery, New York, NY

1985: Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY

1986: Hudson Center Gallery, NY

1986: Rutgers University, NJ

1987 Albright Knox Museum, New York, NY

1988: Bard College, New York, NY

1988: Grey Gallery, New York, NY

1989, 90: Square One Gallery, Block Island, RI

1990: Albright Knox Museum, New York, NY

1991: Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY

1992: Station Gallery, Katonah, NY

1993, 94, 95: Sea Breeze Gallery, Block Island, RI

  

Published Poems

Voyages Magazine

Yankee Magazine

Hartford Courant

New York Quarterly

The Works Quartet